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Poor Mukasey, the nominee for Attorney General, is in a bind. In his Senate confirmation hearing, he is being asked if he considers waterboarding illegal.
Waterboarding defined (Wikipedia)

Waterboarding is a form of torture that consists of immobilizing an individual on his or her back, with the head inclined downward, and pouring water over the face […]

Went back to my old stomping grounds in West Virgnia for a vacation with my wife. I spent one season as a raft guide on the formidable Upper Gauley River after I got out of college in the early nineties.
On this last trip, we didn’t bring a camera, but we drew some pictures. I drew […]

New River Gorge Bridge

Originally uploaded by nukeit1

My lady and I are taking a much needed vacation near the New River Gorge in West Virginia, so there is no Par-tay this week. To make up for it, we’ve got an extra awesome episode October 10, where […]

So three days after my announcing my intentions to go pro on the talkshow thing, I still feel good. Got a lot of love on that post, which makes me feel great. Thanks folks.
Now just need to keep focused on making it happen. To that end, I visited my friend Carl Weaver to find […]

Eric Rochow creator of Garden Fork TV just sent me this email “Someone said to me recently:”you need to pimp yourself out more often, like Jonny Goldstein does…”

Egads. It’s a little scary to actually admit that there is something that I really want professionally. I have done a lot of things—I was a whitewater raft guide, counselor in a homeless shelter, director of a program in the Bronx where we taught 100 teens how to videoblog, video artist…I’ve done a lot of […]

I was just tagged by Jim Long to share 8 random things about myself so here goes:
1. I grew up in Eugene, Oregon. Go Ducks! I don’t really follow the Ducks these days, but I still like the name.
2. I worked as a whitewater raft guide on the Arkansas River in Colorado, and the Upper […]

A Letter To Tony Snow, White House Spokesperson:
Dear Tony,
As I drove to my ritual Star Trek viewing gathering yesterday evening (Yeah, I’m kind of a dork. I admit that.) I listened to you on the radio as you attempted to explain Bush’s commution of Libby’s prison sentence. I was just waiting for a reporter […]

Bill Maddex and I grew up a block and a half away from each other–Jewish children of academics growing up in the punk rock, californicated, drugged out, university town, post hippie enclave that was Eugene, Oregon in the eighties. Bill opened my eyes to a bunch of things. He was using email in ‘86. He […]

What’s great about camping is that it makes menial labor seem so much more tolerable. There is so much menial work involved in camping. Pack, unpack, set up tent, cook, wash dishes, make fire, clean up camp, and on and on. There’s nothing else really competing for your attention, so you kind of get into […]